BTW, hope you had a good winter cutting on your woodlot - and hope you get your birch split before summer humidity sets in. I've got more of the white papery stuff than I ever imagined due to the ice storm that whacked us good before Christmas.
Nosmo , Make it, pretty simple,, but be careful!
http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-make-thermite.html
Edit: now I know you'll all be trying this! lol
Ankles beware. The lot is done for the year: firewood butts waiting for time to split/stack over the summer ( birch is scored, so it should be OK ). No pulp market this year in Maine, so the usual spruce and fir blowdowns and cuts will rot with enough going to the hot tub and workshop stoves. TSI done also.
Stoves still going strong here--wet, chilly, moldy.
I save chains with no life for stump cutting down to the ground. Too much effort on trails to pull stumps anyhow....in time they all rot.
Black flies yet ?
Stove's been going most of the week. Mostly bark, wastewood, etc. Black flies are past peak - they were wicked a couple weeks ago. Seemed more numerous and more aggressive than usual. Glad I got most everything bucked, split and stacked before they came on.
'Skeeters are some coming along. Ticks have been on the warpath for a month. No biggie with the stove going - just pick them of and let 'em suffer over the medium heat lid on the cookstove.
BTW, there's a new member - Split this! is his handle - looking for advice on a stove heated jacuzzi. No one's been able to help him as yet. Your hot tub set up might be some help to him.
